Funny I woke up after just 5 houres of sleep (I was
babysitting the 7 years old son of one of my friends, while
she and her sis where out partying yesterday night (it was
OK, he was just sleeping, so I could sit and hack on Nix and
my font without any problems))... And totally awake! At this
time! Whoa! And now I actually found that stupid nixPoll()
bug (basically a copy-paste-error), so modulo that
nixReadLine returrns the newline-character at the end of the
string for some non-obvious reason, the Pipe test passes...
4 tests passed, 16 more to go...

mpr: There's anoher reason to use ssh
(instaed of say telnet) in addition to cryptated
communication - secure authentification. And the latter is
indeed something with a use in the Free Softtware/Open
Source society - to know for sure who modifies what is
crucial. And OpenSSH and GNU Privacy Gard provides just
that! But I agree with you that the cryptography part of
those packages is not at all as needed in this society
(although in the real world)...
Ouch, nixPoll() is still resisting all my atempts to debug
it!
I also polished my new font, Times Gothic (an antiqua with
a handdrawn look and thicker left-legs than ight ones) a bit
more, and added some currency symbols, ligatures and other
special symbols. It is quite OK as a text-font, but still
needs some polishing before code can be printed with it...
And of course, I still havn't figured out how to change the
vertical advancement of a font in pfaedit...

I've worked some for Take (5 houre, actually! Whee! Money
coming soon or something :) (he called me at half past 9 and
asked me where I as, as I had obviously waked up by my
mp3-player-wakeup-script, turned down the volume and falled
asleep again, and I went over to him without eating any
breakfest. ouch), tweaking his diskless-boot-thingies and
getting his server with devfs to work again after a kernel
switch, where the indicess of the scsi-cards got
switched(!).
Also I've been Nix-hacking again; I've replaces the
NIX_CRASH macro, so that it not only prints the mesage and
the currrent error mesage, but creates a new error message
from the mesage, that inherits from the current one, and
replace the current one with it. Thus, I become able to
debug a lot of pipe-related errors. But the Big Rewrite of
NixFile isn't over yet, as at least nixPoll() is not
working, for some reaon or another...
And for the bigger picture: I sure don't like to be hungry.
And now I'm having a gap between my last student-loan payout
and my first alary. A gap of two months, with more or less
only the money I get from Take, plus 2kkr (~200euro,
methinks)... At least, I don't have to pay any rent during
summer...

Nah, I'm up to late hacking Nix again, after being out to
the tudent pub's first summer (outside) pub, listening to
Ladybug... And tomorrow I'l have to be up at 9 to work a bit
for Take. Oh, what a world :) And then I found this site,
and thought "oh, a Lunarstorm for hackurs. Muahehehe!", and
just had to create a little account and add my projects...
Perheaps something good will come out of doing so, but atm,
it sure looks like wasting time (my favourite occupation ;)...

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